I think this is what turned the corner for me. I started walking everyday back on March 1. I started out by walking 3 miles a day at lunch. By April, I started getting up an hour early so I could walk three miles in the morning as well. So I now walk at least six miles a day and I am now dropping 2-3 pounds a week.
Why 10,000 steps? It is roughly five miles a day and it is the benchmark to shoot for when you are losing weight. Anything over 10,000 steps is gravy. Now I don't know anything about you and it might take you considerably longer than I to work up to 10,000 steps a day. But I can tell you that this is the only thing that has ever worked for me with respect to losing weight. My new diet plays a role as well (elimination of processed and junk foods from my diet) but I know that wouldn't be as successful by itself. You really need the exercise as well. Also, all the walking I am doing actually decreases my hunger. Good luck.
About 7 years ago my wife brought home "Protein Power" and announced that we were going on this diet. I immediately vetoed the idea and she suggested that I read the book. I did and discovered that the diet plan was very similar to my eating habits when single. We went on it. I read up on nutrients and took 400 mcg of Chromium Picolinate in the morning and 15 mg of vanadyl sulfate at night along with a gram of 1 gm of L carnitine at every meal. These nutrient are supposed to improve your insulin sensitivity so that you need less insulin in circulation to maintain a proper sugar level. Less insulin means theoretically a greater corresponding weight loss. I cut my carbs to less about 40 grams. I also walked 4.5 miles everyday before dinner at a 14 to 15 minute a mile pace.
To make a long story short I lost 20 lbs in two weeks! I lost 32 lbs in five weeks! People I knew were doing double takes when they saw me.
I was told it was impossible to lose that much weight that fast! (I was heavily into ketosis and as such I didn't need to burn that many calories to lose a pound of fat. As you know without glycogen or glucose your body cannot completely burn fat and it excretes incompletely burned fat in the form of ketones in your breath, urine, and feces. I like that kind of weight loss! It is easy!)
The walking on top of the diet made my weight loss SURGE.